[OpenLayers-Dev] Random Colors on Vector Features?

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Roald de Wit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 22:44 -0700, Tim Schaub wrote:
>> I'm curious about your use case.  I don't have a good idea how common it 
>> is to want to style a feature in a way that has nothing to do with its 
>> attributes.
> 
> One use case that comes to my mind is implementing random coloring in
> KML: <colorMode>, see [1].

Yeah, I'd say that's a perfect candidate for FeatureId rules.  If you're 
writing a parser, it's not too much trouble to create rules (assuming 
the parser will return a StyleMap).

I was more curious about cases where people are creating features "by 
hand" and wanting to apply styling that has nothing to do with the 
attributes.

Tim

> 
> [1]
> http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tags_beta1.html#colormode
> 
> Regards, Roald